I’m impressed by Susan’s reduction linocuts, in which the artist is able to portray fairly complex scenes in a very interesting and original style. With Vancouver landmarks featuring prominently as subject matter, the two-or-three-toned linocut prints express the landscape in an illustrative, two-dimensional way that’s perfectly stylized and never boring.

Susan’s mixed media works hold to a similar aesthetic, but pare down the imagery to its most skeletal, basic form. These works feature images made through different means, pasted together into almost-abstract compositions on neutral paper. The compositions have a meditative peacefulness to them while the carefully placed images draw the eye expertly across the work.

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Dallas Jeffs is the Editor of Artist Run Website's blog. She is a recent graduate of Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she studied Critical and Cultural Practices. She is passionate about talking and writing about art, and sharing that interest with others. In her studio practice she is a painter, but she considers herself an art writer and educator foremost. If you like art, books and culture with a science fiction twist, check out Dallas' personal blog, HappySpaceNoises